I remember Graham Kirk making friends with me soon after I arrived at the school, which would have been odd if we were in different years. But I don't remember him much after that. According to Friends Reunited, he left in 1968, so he could have been in the year after us; but I don't remember him as one of that group with Povey, Annandale, etc. A bit of a mystery.

O Tempora o mores!What a pleasure to see you all wanting to re-share all of those good times as, no doubt, we all approach grandfatherhood, if we're not there already!! Were there any bad times? Really?I'm posting here as my name is mentioned in this section, but I will be adding memories which I still have as fresh as the day I met Stouts Hill, in 1963, (to July'68), though my brother David preceded Malcolm (twin) and me by 6 years.Keep going, and spread the news.

David Quinn, David Povey, David Cameron, William (Bill) Annandale, Naveed Iqbal, (first name), Malcolm Mills, (my bro')...My living memory of our host, Jonathan, is in the bathroom opposite Matey's rooms, him leaning over a basin of hot water, up to his elbows, staring at nothing in particular, and telling me his Dad worked in Air Traffic Control in Kano, Nigeria. On my FIRST DAY at school, I ask you!!Jonathan, if that's not true, you owe me a lunch!!

Most of the people you mention (apart from your brother) were I think in the year after mine: what I'd call the class of 1968/69.

As for the first-day-at school anecdote, your memory is amazing. Of course I don't remember telling you anything about my father, but yes, he was an air traffic controller in Nigeria at the time. But he was at Lagos Airport in 1963. Later he worked at Kaduna but never at Kano.

If you want lunch, I'm in Sant Pere de Ribes, south of Barcelona. Come and get it!

If you listen to Pink Floyd's Dark side of the moon album (as some people have been known to do), you may hear an airport announcement partway through, of a flight leaving for Rome, Kano, and Lagos. I used to take that flight.

I have the lists of the exam results for all the boys by class for nearly all the terms between1968 and 1973. This list also gives their ages, though not their Christian names, nor bizarrely the actual class names, the list merely has gaps in it every so often.It means that I effectivelly have a school roll for a far longer period, as boys who were 13 in 1968 had joined the school in about 1963 and those that were 8 in 1973 did not leave until 1978.I will scan the lists and mail them to Jonathan. I might also type them out and send them as the paper size looks like foolscap not A4 and it too long for a scanner.

I must also type more carefully I have just noticed typos in several of my other comments

Graham Kirk remains a bit of a mystery. He arrived at the school in the first term of 1962, according to the Magazine; he befriended me soon after I arrived in the last term of 1963, which suggests to me that he was about my age; but his departure isn't recorded in the 1967 or 1968 Magazines. Perhaps he left right at the end of 1968? If he was my age, he stayed at the school unusually long.

I have had a look in the 1969 Magazine and see that Graham Kirk left in July 1969

And in my list of exam results his age is given as 13 years 10 months in July 1969. (And while Pain and Evans were the same age there was nobody older than that at the school. I assume that he would thus have been fourteen when he started at Public school that September. He was thus older than his contemporaries.)

I suggest that if his mother was the matron he may also have been able to start at the school when he was perhaps only 6 or 7 rather than 8.